Clint Black's videos are on every table. Joan says that if Clint went to a bar, he'd pick up himself. Two Liza's, one Carol Channing, Cher and a Joan Rivers impersonator show up. Annie assigns Tom to do the behind the scenes pictures. Joan's room looks like a bad high school prom where the attendees walk through a Kodak picture frame in order to enter the room.

Annie hangs up on her father. Brande tells the boys that all they have to do is look pretty. There's a montage of Annie yelling at people. It's showtime. Trump says this'll be the biggest night in Apprentice history. Next up: Dennis Rodman in drag.

The gays sit around and talk about how much they love Joan Rivers. Who knew queens liked Joan so much? Donald Trump says he has no response to that. Doesn't he not support gay marriage? Gross. The Joan Rivers impersonator greets people on the red carpet. Dennis in drag and Brande in a beautiful blue dress greet people on their end. Annie is working the "classy" angle. Annie is playing perfect hostess and convincing donors to give more money. Three Cirque Du Soleil performers come over to interact with the people at the auctions.

Joan Rivers' party is gay fab. She gives everyone boas. Kathy Griffin shows up. The cast of Chicago shows up. Finally, Donald Trump arrives to check out the auctions. He visits Joan's event first. They show him all the celebrities present first. He goes over to Annie's next and meets the couple of celebrities present. Evidently Natalie donated a round of golf that might go for $25,000. Melissa presents the Celebrity Edition frame to Jeff and he loves it. Jeff liked that Annie used the frames to tell people about her charity.

Joan Rivers gets teary eyed when talking about her party. A woman gave $50,000 because two of her uncles died from AIDS. Wait, is Joan's charity about AIDS? I thought it was about hunger. I'm confused. All the celebrities go to see the Cique du Soleil performance. All the people that bought tickets from them got to ride on the bus to the show. That's kind of a cool selling point.

Now to the boardroom! Donald Trump says that he's proud of Dennis Rodman because he redeemed himself. Joan admits that her team wasn't great. Melissa says she's been proud of her mother and then Donald Trump points out she went crazy when she was fired. Melissa says that she played with honor. Trump calls Brande beautiful. Trump didn't like the celebrity impersonators. Trump points out all Annie's investors were poker players. Dennis says Annie came through with flying colors. Tom Green carefully says Annie was a good leader. Annie admits that the decorator quit because they were unhappy with Joan. Joan says that Annie's lying then calls Annie disgusting. Joan tries to shut Annie up and now looks like a crazy person.

Brande speaks up and says that she understands that Joan hired someone else and they were offended. Joan says that Annie's money is mafia money. That's random. Joan admits that she did all the work with the volunteers of "God's Love We Deliver." Annie tries to explain how she decorated and Joan interrupts and says that Annie's been maligning her all season. Then she says that she likes to win with honor. Annie points out that she's never personally attacked anyone in the boardroom. Joan says she's done talking about it and just wants to know who won.

Joan raised $150,830
Annie raised $465,725

Don says that Annie did a great job on charity integration. Joan didn't really include charity integration. Joan won the other three criteria. Joan had better celebrities, better guest experience, and better Kodak integration.

Donald welcomes Herschel Walker, Clint Black, Melissa Rivers Tom Green, Brande Roderick, and Dennis Rodman into the studio. Dennis gives us and update on his life that's really vague. He said he's sad Chuck Daly died. Dennis also says he's still upset that Jesse James told him he has a problem. Jesse says that only said something because he cared for Dennis. Melissa Rivers said she didn't embarrass herself after her meltdown. She tries to say she didn't have a meltdown. Brande says her and her friends call each other "whore pit vipers" now. Claudia Jordan says that she was embarrassed for Melissa and Joan. Donald shuts Melissa up when she tries to chime in. Donald Trump thanks Clint then tells us Kodak is donating printers and copiers to all the celebrities' charities.

Donald Trump welcomes Annie Duke to the faux boardroom first and then Joan Rivers. Joan pats Annie on her back as she walks to her chair. Joan says she's happy she joined because her charity is known all over the world. Annie says she thinks charity and Friends make the world go round. Melissa Rivers says she doesn't hate Annie because she doesn't have hate (in her heart??). Annie says that if anyone could have beat her, it would have been Brande. Clint Black says that he would fire Donald Trump's editor. This might be his first good joke. Jesse James says that he'd hire Annie because workman's compensation is really high. Dennis says that he has to go with his girl Joan Rivers. Donald Tump calls Scott Hamilton "his wonderful champion" and Scott says he'd hire Joan because of her stamina in her old age.

Donald Trump introduces the charities. Joan's charity is about hunger and AIDS. Essentially, they serve meals to any client. They started with at home AIDS patients and then it opened up to all sort of diseases. Joan Rivers gets emotional with the clients and the volunteers. Joan opens up about her friend Jason who died of AIDS. Annie's charity is "Refugees International." She meets with a refugee that was helped by the charity. She was separated from her sons in Iraq and Refugees International got them visas to come to the US.

Piers Morgan and Trace Adkins come on stage. Piers Morgan says that The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund thanks The Celebrity Apprentice because more and more citizens have donated on their own. Trace Adkins says that he's happy to have raised awareness. Trace says he'd pick Joan to win because she exudes charitableness. Piers says Joan should win because she won three of the five criteria.

Donald Trump finally says he's getting down to business. Joan says that she should win because she represents winning and business in the new way that this country is taking on. She says that she's honorable and charitable. She's harking on patriotism. Nice. Annie says she raised more money and won more challenges. She says that she treated people better. Joan tries to interrupt Annie and Trump finally shuts her up. Annie points out that Joan was not professional when she called her horrible things in the boardroom. Joan says she's honorable and she's just like Donald Trump. They're arguing so much it's starting to exhaust me. Joan will not stop interrupting and Donald Trump just lets her most of the time. I'm not even sure what's happening anymore. In between the fights in the moments of clarity, Joan keeps calling herself honorable and Annie keeps calling herself professional.

Donald Trump asks Ivanka what she thinks and she says Annie was a great game player but she admires Joan's tenacity. Don says Joan's awesome but he respects that Annie lives and breathes game theory. Trump congratulates Annie Duke on doing an amazing job. Trump then says that Joan's a role model for so many people. Annie Duke is fired. Joan Rivers wins.

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-Kim Wetter, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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